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by the pettnission of tots unitary. Jim pressure which he already telt front these various. privations weti already great,. it must grow greater every day, and Must speedily operate to a degree, not perhaps to, be tamely endured. Most likely theretOre the eitetny would have soon to repent of baying wantonly and rashly adopted a Conduel, which the Government of this Country has 5,9 relu4antly been compelled to retaliate:- ... • Lord ERSKlNE:observed, that the Noble Lord . seemed to consider only the policy of .the, measure, and not, to touch on its legality. In his opinion, bowever, if the measure was unjust, sci also must it heiMpolitic, for he could never bring himself •to believe that what was wrong could be prOSperous. This country had long stood high in the opinion of the World for its love and observance of justice : its commerce had risen to the highest pitch of prospe rity under tho 'auspices of the old principles upon which it was carried oh ; let us . not now degrade the nationalcliargter, and turn the tide ,of our •eons- ntercial prosperity, in recurring to a conchs& that can only lead to disgrace and disaster. It was well oh.. served by his Neble Friend (Lord Auckland), thatla , it year the commerce of the country was at its aelimee let us take care lest the next year shOuld winless - tut rapid decline. Whatever might be said of•thd'Ore der in Council el Jan, 7th, tBO7, he never would admit that its principle, in the least,, resembled the Orders of NoveMber last.' This was' not an 'Mum ' thorised opinion ; but he could prove it to 'rest on atehorities that could not he questioned. He chiefly alluded to the answer to the Russian Memorial, which bore the names of Sir D. Ryder and Lord brims:field, and ie which ;are exactly to be found the principles that sanetion the Order of the qth of Ja nuary, and which are incompatible with those which the present Adunnistration have issued. Btiona parte, flushed with conquest and drutik with suc cess, had issued a Mad Decree, which be had no means to enforce. Without a Ship that would veat tune, he declared the British Isles in a state of bleckade. Without the same excuse, were We to surpass, the insatiit?i of that insiesin - e, and continue to ten a race in folly end ex travagance; if Buenaparte chose to'deelare the Moon in a state of blockade, Mat We 'ont-strip him, and, blockade the sun Whet thekyonldbecotheolour oppositions, and co oppositions, of our Apheiliontuand Periphelious But, continued' his Lordship,' this '' musts lead to the 'Most ealatnitoes consequetiCes.---. ShOuld be inedlved in a rupture With America, • *hat MistOrtuties 'Muse there' nut arise from' it I it vane msrltilicly — aticnbiAiledged on • both 'sides of the /louse,' that Our intercourse with Atnerica was'w riiaitt . '6olll . 6o. 'Of one ceint*reial prosperity. Shea ve' berielvese dry It We be instrtirnental in' impoveriithitig'Antericd;' the whine Of whose Wealth , iloseedeidte this' Ctiontry.? Shall' our violence compel her IO turfs her tilifis to the creation Of a navy . siniFtnanttfaauree ntrary tor' the , .wise'advice of Witshingtete' ad thereby Ent her att4titiOri on what May afterwardi be turned tit our destrodiou ? Why not' rather lend Anteriea the preteetion of our Navy, and enable her to aCeumulattethiewealth which will , soon flow) back to enrich ourselves ?, it wtts . con-' fessed by Ministen'i; thane-thing oils yet known, in! Ameriea, of our late Orders iii Council r theimo; Ment, therefore, was not yet lost. GoVernmenthed h atilt .in its puwt.r to perform Spontaneous' ea; end' recall whateVer tnewitare beet, .adtipt‘d tni tnical to, the intere4ts of 'America: ' He implored them to do so : he felt all the value of our friendly intercourse ivith the -United' ,Statet. To cultivate and improve that conneaitinshobld be our anxious study and inceisant eare.'''He Could rtOt',.birt speak enthusiaSticallyefAmerica,.becauSe he felt that there was the best friend; end the most. usethl Ally' of this Country. • • `veiLOPD CH/INCELLOR 'agreed that the Orders of Centicit could notbe defended if they ,were St vielation of time, Lase'of Nations ; and if their Lord- Ihipecould be persuaded that such was their charac ter, there could be uo occasion to urge their going lute a 'Committee, to consider of the propriety of Itddresiing hog Majesty to cheek theoperattoti of re gulations which were coptrorj to 'the Law of Na - lions—that is, the 'natural justice' ought to be held sacred between nation and ' as bettveen one iedividual and another. WhateVer was Contrary to the splrh - of the Law of Natiattiiite al lowed .could Dot he justly altered, even br Parlia ment ; but at tlie r same time it Was 'to beibbServed, that from' thee nattese of the thing: There rtittitcheees '..Narlly be variations in tlie applicittion of the liriu ctple to ,dlffort:iii 4:1-cuinstanceA:' MI all that ' bid .b6on,aone by ureic Orders; . rvir 'did they time}; stiere:4o6 the' ttlonicipal tattfthitif • t hey' did' upon Lhd'Lts`W of .N mtleitls, That the Crete rt tied a nein of OWA attthority to i'll3l: . e . te:piJati)A4 - for the tr!tde' of the Ce, eery, to niter - Meddle with ;411 4 e f ffiiatiOl i t, would not I ciyojelltiol; ,bnieertainlY'itfrad ie , ce the pr"n of the Crown, *heti the natlilinvai "itt war, to aficilt the .. teade 'of neetrals, far as Ora 'l6igkit be called for •by 'thee:elide& 01 our ereetves. As 'it had' been tirg , - o(l,*that the tiNvions tiwasnres the 'enetny were , ontY matters of Intcrnal 'regulation, or a further ex terliioll of a NaVigation Law; which they had a ts sett 'to if they pleased,' his -I.,nrd to'state Ins reason; Why they' ought to he regarded' as a shred 'violation of the rights of, .Neutrals apd the: 'Liss/ cif Nations', ror this intrpose he bei4te with the 'preamble of the Ifte tree the 21it Of 'NeVember ; 14c - pret4nble,,aii he said, being 'considered by LaWyers as .a key to the body of the epaulette Frorit the wordie of this reel, ' tal s and the natoreof the complaints against Weit Bri tairewhich was diargc:it with having put whole Coasts and empires sPite of bloehilde, withotit having the power dlitaily to execute that 'bloettAde,, irf the ostablilhediforin i . nd'Utainter, lie contended drat lino; i wparte Mast havo meant not only to'ekeldde Brftish 1 06, duce and inanotaameS front ports; 'but also to p rev tit all trade isbh , tevot in British commodi; ti es , This was a flagrant violation of the rights of ; for it was as much as to (fay that whoever Gicat Britain would be eonsidered as an t oi r oy y Conpling the preamble with the . ; i iet ewet Was the: obvious retest of the Decree. vi a Lordships I het; adverted the Order of Council o f ,y, , tokiary, last year , and argued til.Soi c!,,m the p eie l , m estreetion of this Oder, tlett the tte • m est belie :twee' misuedersteed by the late; -Decretc Im mm a- than ere itticrital f l • lead a rigii( to Lid 'I '' nt l f ; ! . 11,1 s (.11, t 1 inure teat y .esors were in the wrung, 'anon mid that, ue LOA theit J arj Prekluw , than that they tnemseives were in LAIC I VI, could not. be imputod to him on tile present ocea,-.1 sion, for, as, far as the Order of the :7th of went, it had his approbation. Itti then read the words down to," would give his Majesty an nti questionable right to blockade, &e. 't/hich the supe rior valour, &c. would enable him to carry into etTeCt, by aelually investing, and So forth." At least, there 'was here a recognition . of the 'Mpg tice of France to Neutrals, if not an approval of the principle of retaliation, by establishing a siirnilar system of nominal : blockade. But the Order, at all events, extended further than the old mode of ap plying.the Law of Nations. It might be said, that, according to the rule of 170; we had a right to -in , ' terrnpt the CeastingTrade of France; but this inter- j rupted the Tattle of Spain, 8, - ;c.' with France, and , included those Nations where France had such a controul its to enable her to enforce Ahe exclusion 'of our Ships. Any nation had a right to exclude slur Ships; but the Orderpreceeded on the sound prin ciple, that in fad the exclusion was not owing to the nation itself but to France. To support this construction of the Order, his Lordship cited the speech of the President of the United States, ' who, he observed, understood it in the same way; and, tor, the justness of his construction of the French Decree, he cited . the Spanish Debree. Ito also cited the pretensions and complaints of the Danes to the same effect. With tegard to the opinion of M. Decres, in reply tc:i General Arm strung,Whe consulted him about theapplication of the Decree to America, he considered that worth nothing. 'The whole answer evidently amounted to this, that Deeres knew very little about the matter. This appeared fiom a sentence in the answer,' which he observed in a very'eXcellent pamphlet on this subjeEt, which, he knew not for What reason, was not published in the official letter... TheroDez eres distieCtly stated, that he had ranch lesS posi tive information on the point than . the Prince'ef Be nevento, _whom he advised General Armstrong to con4ult. The Court of Admiralty also had certainly adopted his construction of the French Decree.--- When a Neutral was captured by an Enemy, it was not the. praCtiee to grant Salvage for ' releasing the Vessel, because she was in no danger 'of coolisca tiop. But, ion' an American Vessel" being seized fol trading with this Country, and released by one of our Ships, -eth of the whole was granted 'as salvage., As.,to the questiOn Of the right of retaliation, his rAit4ship ieentended, that when our °Ow 'Oreserva-, lion required that we should take measures 'against out Enemy, the Neural bad no tight to complain; for the injury to her was consequential. ' He'stated a' variety of instances to prove the ccirreCtness of this position, and cited cases 'of bleckddes, • embargiaes, Sec'. aillltiitrationa of the &Chine. - As to the mode of the retalißtiou, lie did not think itrneeessary to stiy a word on that Subjeat. With resped to the policy"of the Measure, 'he maintained that view of it had been taketi, fiattienlArly' with regard' to - Arherica.: We were not 'to consider' merely the greatness Of the advantages which we derived 'froth an intercourse 'with America, but also What,lwotild . be our situation if Ain erica 'should submit to the DecreeS of Btionaparte: To preserve peke , with Ametica, he one Could be more anxious than he was: He wished well to Aitierita,'first, because it Vas 'big ditty as a Man to' Whili 'Well to every Nation; lihtl! net, beeanse the welfare' of America Materially. cotme&ed with the interests of Great Boirtio:twila t he ecibld not suffer the Enemy'both of Great Britai n and Atherica to make use of the one to 'destroy th e other; and his duty to his own Country was clearly. paramount to his regard for any other. He these Orders would not' be . pfoduative of a 'war, with America. " Do - not, my' Lords," he said . with ear nestness, " bring on such an'etient, by argnifig the case upo4i any such sUppoSition.: Amerlea, l l omit, will still listen to the voice of troth-i-She Will See that the whole of, this is owing to France—and per , haps shemay be at last sensible of the policy 'of joining With us in opposition to theiyild and ext rave gent 'pretensioni of a Power whose tibjeCt is to crush us both." • - • - Lord KING supported the motion, taking nearly he same course In the ohserimtion and atgument as the NobleLords.who had preceded him on that side of the inestion, and contended strenuously'tbat the Orders of Council, which annihilated the Ilatri gallon of innocent NCUCVNIS upon tho 'high seas, not he justitied ''on'the grotind of retaliation fur the. French Deeree. of 'the tst of Novertibei, !anti, which was rOereliiLli aft of: 'dottiestic rep lation, piffeetlyComPetent to the enemy to 'adopt and carry into execution, rtiltlwut any violation' of 'the Law' of 117atinns, Eprd OR 67.17.;L4: ep9orred with Noble Friend (Lord Aticklant% that the question Wat'Ont of tri ) 4 important tat 'Coal Octnpy the atten tion or Parliament. • it'‘i , as one more particularly calling' for the intcrpositi'on of that - House, becatise, unleSs‘Gotiernment could he brought to' tread hack the'steri that had been taken, mistortone 'would fol low initfortune, calarnity , succeed calamity, and Ais. aster he added to ditaster, until nut only pettetity should rue the hour when such measures were adopted, but even the authors of them have cause to repent 'of the coursi WhiCh had Unfortunately been taken. It was not, bok.vever, yet too laio to correti the erior'that had been committed ; Parlia- Ment might still interpose, aud save the country horn 'the consequence of persevering' in that impo litic and ruinous course ; 4t behoved' that House, therefore, to interpose in time, or a small interval of delay might render their interposition unavailit4. The Noble Lord on the Woolsack had asserted, that in arguing ,this Subjeft, it was - not' his intention to totind his juitiO,catibii of the measure under Conti 'aeration, upon a COntlenination of the measures of others. In Justice to thafNoble Lord, he adinitteil, that in this instance he had not resorted to a pre. tice, w hicli had too often been ad'opied of late. The Noble Lord, however, had, instead of *lin fication of his own measure, occupied' himself partieubirly in jus tifying an as of the preceding Administration, as if he wished to fix the attention of their Lordships to that aCI, in the, hope, that the measure under disenssion would be considered' as resting upon the same grounds.' Hut the two cases were widely different, as he should be ahle.to prove to . the' 1 - 104se. At for the tyrannical Deeree of Franee; he abboyred, con-, clenmed, and detested it as Innen as any 'Nobl e L or d could. If was upon r lip groond that that Decree had declareathel3ritish lilartchiin a state of bitiekadr, that the Order of Chuncil of the 7th day of Janu ary had been trained. he would not, deny ; It V' LiAr WILC it 6111 ,4IUI LI; i) ;.ipperl U ti (CC', ,M. l :- the e;roestaoces, and stew the ilrpoliey • - iiCl terse than TT. been ak - 7,40 , y t he 44e, 444 tlre f ii ,2. - 11 to ,ift ? T li ko ree 4,1ia5 reneh G#ern-,. t r nierki 7. , e us krif), seta ite le -* n the my, botefUtight to retsfrat upno' tweet Nentrakex eept irt''t he caseof theiracquiescence in that Decree. 'Had any proof of such acquiescence been produced i. Not a --s he doweefepreof—te-t hitt-effeek-trettredy and -r thereceie, , , , in , rthif.absene4 o[ such evidence, eiery, ground ofjustilication of the late Orders in Council was taken away. . Here the Noble Lord' corn- - muted at some length upewilwelectuneots on the., table, for . the. purpose - of iliewing. that. the, Neutral Natiinis had not acquiesced in fluottaparCa Decree to our injury. ffe .referred to the case of a vessel which had been liberated by- the Prize Court in France, and also of and released by 'a Prlie Court io'Spain, after having been captdred upon a .suppo sition that ,the Decree of. Noveniber Uxtencled, to. vessels at sea; in order to prove that ia. such cop..; struction had been. pnt upon that Decree by the pro per tribunal • for 'carrying it -into effect in France. The-moment that America was apprised of the in tention of the French Government, to construe and exectite the Decree to that extent, she reserted to:an embargo. This was an: Unequivocal . proof that America did, not acquiesce inAerren6.ll Decree to the extent assumed by the Noble Lords who de fended the spirit of the Orders,of Council, whilst, on the other hand, there was net 'tbeSlighteSt shadow:of proof of her having ever ' dnce , acquiesced in , the. French Decree. There was n O ground of justification therefor on that head. The , 'Noble and Learned Lord.: had endeavoured to shew ehe - Orders of Council did not violate the I;:aw'of Nay.iorts, but he •had not said anything in answer to the: statetnent of hi.; Noble Fried (Lord Auckland)) ; that they violated 7 or 8 Statutes .: the N:ivig;.ition "ALA 'the Ati regulating the trade of Jersey, &c. In all 'the ,reasuoing Upoo the . levyingOf ship-Money, and. all the tyrannical pro ceediogs.which led to the:PA:volution, the plea of ex pediern7 was always tarpg b ed in jeStitication of wen impositions resorted to 'without the consent of . Parliament. ,The same, .plea was. set up in this Instance, - though the parliaropt had been, pro rogued-after the-circumstances- which produced the, expediency had ariseo.. If Orders of Council 'could alter the law of the labd, there, was no occasion for the. farce or mockery of assembling a Parliament. — .After dwelling with _much. stress upon this: topic, the 'Noble Lord citme tb consider the object pm posed to be effeElid by the ' Orders of Council.— He had at length- discovered, but after having been much . puizled b efore he could discover, what the King,'S.;Nfiniaterfa intended to accomplish by these, Orders. ' .He It hetn three comments upon thetni, one by .an eminent Civilian {Dr. Rebirts6ny, ' one by a ,'4.Triter upon 'Political Economy ,(Mr. Branginnin) 3 and a third,, which contained, Mute . infOrrnatiort upon ' tl:e subject . of - commerce t n'. I '' 12' a . • . - t tan , any, v . /ark to lwd e‘ et Ken, by :a Most respeaamerchant .(Mr. Bariug); and yet . all the,e, writers appeared to him ,to be w sorne errorrespea ing thef,e4 r Orders.. 'This obsettiitt }vas reason for going into the Committee.. IThere was a. wise re gtdat'idh prOailing in the przthlice of the dther House, that no considerable aleeration of trade should be Mule' without 'first suinoitting it , .to a Committee of theWholeiHotisc. . rre was trot sufficiently acquaint cid s.Lth their tior , :tnliips' 'Orlier: - ; :to Say kviwther any . *kWh o.A' , llti ( r:f .37:13ted among : th , -:to ;; but as the l Orders of Covitcil made a fundamental and radical al (eration in Ale trade of this country, k oh with respeet M belligerents and neutrals, their .4ord:il4ips ought us go into - a.ComMittee of the wholteHottsevto eonsider wheat. tx., the traeaattre ought to 'be:•trioeted.' As `to the policy of the measure,, be would unucrtahe to shew that it Was impossible' to carry these Orders of CrAllCif into effea. It was vain to expeCt io, deprive Eihitre etthe'supply of cotton for its manufaOures. We might prevent her, by our maritime isoperiority, from being supplied from America or the WeStlo - but sheWOuld find places , inaccessible .to •intar 'ships where cotton might be cultivated, and whence she could be .supplied. The consequenCe of pre venting France from receiving cotton tram the usual sources would be, that our market Would be over mocked, that the price of the article would fall, and that the reduction in the price would lead to a diminution of the 'supply. He was , - persuaded, that if 'the execution .of the, measure was 'prafticable, t its operation would be injurious to this. Country. ~ If the ohjeet was to make the trade of France subser vient to the' interests of this Country, that objeet maid not . be . secret., The Government, of „France took the measures that common sense would ' ilk • r ' h` 4 the point Qut to ...0 , at.suca an cLije...,t- Mothent, these Orders of Council were known to it,,, by declaring, •that goods - and vesaels should . be confiscated ;on ' entering a -French port, if.they had, ,previously been 'in . an English :port. Beside;. there could not -he , a rational hopes entertained that America would submit to this oleaitire....' it;le thought a rupture with America weArld be one of the most ruinous external ' calamities that' could befall this•country,- and was ready to make any effOrt to. prevent it. If they bad then to diseass- she-propriety .of . the tneasures•t hat had !reit taken', • he witS'?ure -they would 'never .sancuouthem with their approbation. .1314 i his:Ma jesty's servants had taken - the whole responsibility upon themwelves, and done away the' deliberation Of Parliameo:r. They 'had , new 'nothing .to do hnt,fe tread back their steps, andnot to continue in error ' to a7oid the shame of retraetion. It was not Irons, any • distrust of the resources of Country that he fear ed a rupture with America, but because the war-with that Country on the groundof these Orders would 'be unjust, .tind in the prosecntien of it they could not • exped.thesamefeelingswould anitnate theirdefenders, as IC they. wereccinvinced of the justice of thell'eause. The boon that Was said to be given by these-Ordera to Arnerica; was no more than what sheAtad a right 0 to,;aud what this Cottony had no right to takeirom ' her. As to the" duties .propOied'te be levied Under - these Orders of Council, he should only may, that whetuthe peace of Me took, place, lie riever thought that he should have lived, of that the..gritish. Parlia meet_ should have lived, te - see the day w hen-it pro position. would he made to impose a tax upon.'Ame mica. He had hoped that the duties proposed WOW h ave b een co ,ifi n A tut articles of Colonial produc tion, anit'llial no dot) itiToul,l'be imposed upon: AthJ ricito produce. . lie was sorry, to Lind, thererore, by certain Resolutions on 'the table, that ;in 'Certain cts,-i articles of the domestio prodtice of Atnetica were to I.)e liable to a duty. America could never ' submit to such conditions, and u was an. net elgth,s IniaAice to impose ! Amy - duty UpOLi 40Wieti to be imported into this Country, when forced into our Ports under the execution ortbese Orders of Council.. Upon these. grounds, there fore.).(lat.should voiefor going into the Committee. Lorti 11411 1 KE$BURY vindicated the line of ar gument puraued by his Noble and Learned Friend. It ever there liad been a time, a question ton ..:which it-was-thotight-,.:Proper to refer to past mea sures,, to the persons by svhcan such measures had beetvadopted, and to the circansfancesunder which they - bad - 7i* place, it was the present moment, and the tttiestioo thou under the consideration of heir Cotalithipsr. The preaMble of the Orders of Council spewed: that they were not founded upon any recent act, l that.; s they only. were to carry into effect the princiPie faid r dnwn in ,a fernier act, which bad been insufficient to its professed object. How . - ever he might ditrsa;,aa to the policy of the precise ad which hat: in 7:le 'former case been resorted to, .he approved of ,thef•principle. uPon which it rested. When'. thkaFronch Decree was published there appeared to him “1 - 0 cases, one of which might have been taken, either to consider that De cree as idle words, and to treat it with contempt, or to took upon it as Arsobstantial measure, calculated to injure the interests of this Country, and justifying measures of)retaliation. • The late Ministers did not consider That Decree in the former light, or pass it over in silence and contempt, though they noticed, it. only b 3 - abortivi ;attempt at retaliation.--* The arguments that been Urged by the Noble Lords, opposite 'in this ,instance, would apPly with More force against , their own tneasure.-- The Learned Lord (Lord Erskine) had said, that the Order of the 7th January was only a trifling en— largement of the principle of the war of i 756. Kitt the principle of that war founded upon this, that neutrals should not be allowed, during , war, to sea ,a ,trade which, they had not enjoyed during peace. Neither France nor Spain allowed neutrals lo carry on theirooasting trade during peace, and the pripciple of tins4ar of laaatwas*, that they shbOd not carry it on iti -time of war.. This a belligereut had a riht, upon the broad principle, to resist and refuse. I,lot though neutrals were net allowed to p tr e a a d Fe e between ,tiy Brest *er enc.) a t nd pro ll h o i n b rd ite e d aux in Anne of between Ferrol , and Bre s t, and Iroborwee trading' ports of France and Spain, This trade therefore ala. lowed during peace, they had a right to possess dUriog war ) and upon. the general principle no belli gerent hada right consistently with the Law of Nits tiuns - to take . freta them. Thi s , be w ever, the Order of the 7th of January, did take fromthetris and unless that Order could be defended, and the prin ciples of the Law af-Natiousi it was not to be jos .; titled at all. Ily,,the copy of an V official dispatCh found by his Majesty's, present I%linisters km' their going-intoetlice,it was eVident that their preciecesa sore efiterAttincd, opinions similar to their own; ort, the justice of retaliatingaipoo the enemy the inea A sores. of hostility ,which he might choose to adopt towards this Country. We had a right to retaliate, we did retaliate.. 'The ektent. al the, Powess.with whichi we were at war, had no Meet in depriving us of that " right: If by that retaliation Neutrals were Incidentally' injured, it was to be lamented, but could not tend 1.4 thediminution of that right. In the last.war, the Eli* find the Weser wefe blockaded, although ohe side watt occupied by neutrals, who mus t 'enrm eci 4ently have sustained material injury. The , tenor of the 'French Decree has been admitted by the Nale Lords op-• • posite themSelveS. AS to the attempt made to 1 4-: sinnate, that its virulence had been abated by. the explanation given by Decres, the Minister of Ma= rine, to General Armstrong, nothing Could be name futile. , How could any renunciation, but one as plati-; lie and as formal as 'the 'Decree itself be said to do away . its effe6t ?.Was France to be left to blow hot and 'cold at pleasure? In Cases tried in.the Admiralty Court in England, the eminent person who presided in that .COurt, declared that Deerea' explauation was nugatory; ,so.much for the justice of the Or ders in Council. With respect to their policy, the Noble Lord entered into a long and `able exposition of the advantages deriveable froM them. He com pared the measure with that of the late Administra* tion, and contended that while by the Order of .tan. 7, the ordinary law of nations had been. just as much violated as by the Orders of the tWs -November, the latter secured to the Country lavut fits which the former was not calculated to obtain. :It was intoleratale that England had enjoyed little ad vantage from her maritime Superiority ; and that France, who - did not dare shew a flag on the ocean, had Carried en such a trade by neutral bottoms, that the people of- that Country consumed colonial pro , ` dtit!e. at 'a Much has rate than the English. 'Jo pre vent this was the:great objea of. the. Orders 19 Council ; and in doing Allis, so far was the UAW i Grc t from being injured, that the exports of the months . of , December ancij.anuary last exceedei. 'the exports of the corresponding months of the pre ceding year. Curd LAUDERDALE wished the Order's to be discussed on their own positive merits, and not on .their corripartitive 'merits. He believed that. they had been infinitely. mischievous. They iujuied ow'".. Arals much more than, the enemy ; and were,lit opioion,.tantamount to a declaration of War Willa America: Lord' SID MOUTH was desirous that the..Orciel:k might, be referxed a committee, in.order to give hitu.an opportunity of fully investigating, and mai; - ing up his , rnind'.upen this important subje6l, ntz which he bad not yet been able to form a decided opinion. The House then divided, For the Motion 30--Proxies.l.lBr-7--4 8 4gainst the Motion. 6 1--Proxies 4e.---106 .1 lU , 11, Wiority arokti4t Lord Auckland` i Motion--44 , iVI . M.IIIIed FoIIK o'Clock Oifi.morning. SOUSE 0 P:,COM)110 NS. .I%IONLIA,Y; FEL Ib. . . . , Mr. SENKISVON presented a Copy ofitieWirril t under bis ' 4 4TajOy's Sign Manu4J, ,appointing.Con l * . roissioneri for Abe Management' of the Airgirs.af tlici Royal Naval Avian). ' Leiv(.. W,li tr ) . li!ii for the flotiharn gle6tim Com -1.11)11(.4.1 (0, .3 , 3 jonrn ,:t it, ri,irilto-ii. )otrow, ciVer Wed tic!'-!av, being the Fa 4 Ilty. Also to. the Saltadi Committee. . _ _ POOLE 17 Liz.CTioN , The • N't r AR, Ctiairtnen otthe'ronic Elq4t:on Co;atnit4 cc, tepurted, W ily `old solar as 'tape' cAnd. Mr. Garlazid and Sir Richard